Author Topic: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail  (Read 5189 times)

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greenhatch

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5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« on: January 27, 2010, 12:25:41 PM »
As I use GMail for my emailing and the Mail Shield doesn't automatically cover GMail, I'm wondering if it's still worth running Mail Shield anyway. Does Alwil recommend running Mail Shield in 5.0 as it does Internet Mail Shield in 4.8 for some multi worm protection?

LorenzoC

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 12:57:34 PM »
If you use GMail as Web application you access your GMail account from the browser so it is covered by the Web Shield and the Network Shield, not the Mail Shield.

The other option is to access your Gmail as POP3 using a mail client (es. Thunderbird). In that case you have to disable the SSL encryption in the mail client server settings because SSL is provided by Avast Mail Shield. Then you can go in the "expert settings" of the Mail Shield and "SSL accounts", there you can see the list of mail accounts/servers that Mail Shield is monitoring and one should be GMail.

Sesame

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 01:24:42 PM »
Just a minor correction but Web Shield cannot scan HTTPS traffics, which my browser uses for Gmail.

greenhatch

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2010, 04:05:16 PM »
I incorrectly referred to worms instead of spambots in my above enquiry. And I don't require Mail Shield to scan my emails as GMail scans attachments.

So now would an Alwil rep please comment on whether DavidR's recommendation in http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19677.msg165434#msg165434 re Avast 4's Internet Mail Shield holds good for Avast 5's Mail Shield too, to offer some protection against mass spambot attacks? Thanks
« Last Edit: January 29, 2010, 04:07:23 PM by greenhatch »

spg SCOTT

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 04:11:25 PM »
Hi greenhatch,

I'm not from ALWIL, but we did discuss this recently...and I  would say that the mail shield is essential, for those reasons David mentions

The more recent thread: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53892

-Scott-

greenhatch

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 04:14:37 PM »
Thanks spg scott, that's all I need to know :)

spg SCOTT

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 04:19:08 PM »
You're Welcome :)

As you will see from the thread, it happened to me, and at the time the mail shield was the only thing which caught what what was going on, otherwise I would probably not eve have noticed...

-Scott-

greenhatch

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 04:34:26 PM »
Scott would you say the default Mail Shield settings are sufficient in my case?

biolog

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Re: 5.0 Mail Shield and GMail
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2010, 04:42:27 PM »
Update 5.0.394----->>>5.0.396 smoothly from program built-in update module.